A senior Egyptian military official who has refused to be named has accused Israel of attempting to provoke Egypt. The official warned that Egypt would “cut off the hands” of any aggressor in the Sinai Peninsula, either domestic or foreign. According to a report published late Sunday night by the Egyptian newspaper al-Masry
Anger over an anti-Islam film reached new peaks on Monday as a call for a mass boycott of the Google search website and video-sharing website YouTube was quick to ripple across the online Muslim world. Arab activists launched a series of campaigns on Facebook, claiming that Google still makes some links to the U.S.-made
Israel has “no roots” in the history of the Middle East and represents a disturbance for Iran, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Monday. Ahmadinejad said Iran has been around for thousands of years, but Israel has existed for only 60 or 70 years. He said that for a certain “historical phase” Israel represents
Somalia’s al-Qaeda linked Shabaab threatened Monday to kill all the country’s new lawmakers, saying that an MP killed at the weekend in Mogadishu was just the first to be targeted. “The successful elimination of Mustafa Haji Mohamed was the action of the mujahedeen who are committed to killing all MPs,” a Shabaab official who
Egypt’s Supreme Administrative Court on Sunday ruled that members of ousted president Hosni Mubarak’s dissolved party can stand in future parliamentary elections. The court found that any Egyptian citizen should not be deprived of political rights, “including the right to run in legislative bodies,” as long as that person meets the candidacy requirements, judicial
U.S. President Barack Obama on Sunday likened Israeli pressure on him to draw a clear “red line” over Iran's nuclear ambitions to "noise" he tries to ignore, AFP reports. Interviewed for Sunday's edition of "60 Minutes" on broadcaster CBS, Obama said he understands and agrees with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's insistence that Iran not
Pro-Israel posters will go up in 10 New York City subway stations Monday, after a federal judge ruled that the city must put them up. The ads read: "In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel. Defeat Jihad." New York's MTA transportation agency barred the
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has reiterated that should Israel attack his country, the Islamic Republic will retaliate. Ahmadinejad made the comments in an interview with CNN’s Piers Morgan. The full interview will air on Monday, but excerpts were released on Sunday. Asked by Morgan what his country’s response will be if it is
Rep. Joe Walsh, an incumbent Republican congressmen running for reelection in Illinois, issued a statement Saturday vowing to "pursue and expose" the radical Islamic threat, following the arrest of a terror suspect from Hillside, Illinois. Prosecutors announced Saturday that the terror suspect had been arrested on the previous night, in Chicago. The suspected left
Egypt’s new president, Mohammed Mursi, urged the United States late Saturday to change its approach to the Arab world to be able to repair relations and revitalize an alliance with Egypt. Mursi will travel to New York on Sunday to take part in a meeting of the U.N. General Assembly. “Successive American administrations
